Why Age Verification for Online Porn Failed

The policy aimed to protect children, but critics say the flawed project presented serious privacy risks

Becca Caddy
OneZero
Published in
7 min readJul 29, 2019

--

Credit: Towfiqu Photography/Getty Images

WWhen today’s politicians were at school, they may well have discovered pornography through a ragged magazine passed around the back of the class, or an illicit VHS tape at their friend’s house. Today, the scale…

--

--

Becca Caddy
OneZero

UK-based journalist specialising in tech, science & the future. Author of SCREEN TIME (out Jan 2021). beccacaddy.com